WASHINGTON, DC, June 7, 2017 — SILC, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs, offers students the opportunity to earn an innovative non-credit certificate with support from a world-class academic institution.

A project of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG), SILC provides leaders in this space the opportunity to Up Your Game so that together we can build a more sophisticated field with greater community impact through sport.

More than 2.7 million students will take AP exams in May 2017. “There’s no guarantee they’ll receive credit for their AP scores,” said Paul Weinstein. In September 2016, Weinstein assessed policies of the top 153 universities and colleges, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. His study found 86 percent of them restrict AP credit in some way.

Taxpayers may be unaware that they used a barred tax preparer. “These corporations have figured out that this is a vulnerable population that’s about to come into a nice chunk of cash, and they can get a cut,” said Paul Weinstein.

]]>http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/paul-weinstein-quoted-in-roll-call/feed/0Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner on the Lou Dobbs Show on Fox on Friday, March 10http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/benjamin-ginsberg-and-jennifer-bachner-on-the-lou-dobbs-show-on-fox/
http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/benjamin-ginsberg-and-jennifer-bachner-on-the-lou-dobbs-show-on-fox/#respondThu, 09 Mar 2017 16:05:13 +0000vpopow1http://advanced.jhu.edu/?p=114236Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner are going to be on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox national television during the 7:00-8:00 PM segment on Friday, March 10th, 2017.

Lou Dobb is the host of Lou Dobbs Tonight, a program featuring a breakdown of the day’s top stories and how they impact the economy.

]]>http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/benjamin-ginsberg-and-jennifer-bachner-on-the-lou-dobbs-show-on-fox/feed/0Paul Weinstein, Director of MA in Public Management Program, on NPRhttp://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/paul-weinstein-director-of-ma-in-public-management-program-on-npr/
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On February 22, 2017, scpr.org’s AirTalk featured Paul Weinstein, director of the MA in Public Management program, discussing whether AP classes adequately prepare students for college.

Last year, nearly 3 million high school students took 4.7 million Advanced Placement (AP) exams around the world, a 5% increase from the previous cycle.

]]>http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/paul-weinstein-director-of-ma-in-public-management-program-on-npr/feed/0The Ideology of al Qaeda and ISIS: An Interview with Dr. Shiraz Maherhttp://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/the-ideology-of-al-qaeda-and-isis-an-interview-with-dr-shiraz-maher/
http://advanced.jhu.edu/blog/the-ideology-of-al-qaeda-and-isis-an-interview-with-dr-shiraz-maher/#respondTue, 07 Feb 2017 18:17:33 +0000vpopow1http://advanced.jhu.edu/?p=112699read more…]]>Do al Qaeda and ISIL fight the way they do because of their understanding of Islam? Or do they have the understanding of Islam they do because they are fighting? What do they believe anyway and what sort of theological contortions did they have to go through to justify those beliefs? Dr. Shiraz Maher of Kings College London and an adjunct in our MA in Global Security Studies discusses his book Salafi Jihadism: The History of an Idea with Dr. Mark Stout.
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